September 28, 2009 - Sani Lodge Fireplace

Woke up at 4:30AM to check out of the lodge and head over to the Natal Sharks Board boat at Wilson Wharf. We were scheduled to accompany one of the Natal Shark Board's teams on an expedition to check the shark nets and release any sharks/dolphins/etc that may have become entangled in the nets. Of course, the weather was so incredibly bad that the boat trip was canceled!! :(

We finally did some proper laundry and chilled out at Europa café in Durban while updating the blog. While we were there we caught up with a local newspaper. One of the front-page headlines was about a local man who married four women in one ceremony over the weekend. The groom said it saved him a lot of money. Sami thinks that's pretty ridiculous. If he really wanted to save money, he wouldn't have gotten married at all! ;)

The weather is expected to be windy, cold, and rainy for the next few days, and unwilling to let that slow us down, we are making the drive over to the mountainous country of Lesotho and the infamous Sani Pass.

We arrived at Sani Lodge, which is located on the South African side of the Sani Pass. Too cold to go outside, and too tempted by the warm fire in the living room of the lodge, we spent the entire evening and late night drinking wine and talking to the various travellers, including a couple of Danish guys coming in from Lesotho, and a couple of Aussie girls coming from Joburg. We shared tons of travel stories and talked about general world affairs. It was nice to be able to spend so much time with a group of friendly folk.